Editor Oliver Johnson published Jurassic Park at the very beginning of his career. Today he looks back at the publication of one of the biggest-selling books of the 1990s, and the incredible London premiere of the 1993 film.
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Jurassic World was everything I could have wanted and more. Not to say that it was perfect, but it was pretty close. When I first heard there was going to be a fourth movie in the Jurassic Park universe I thought that it couldn’t possibly get any worse, the third film well and truly killed my hopes for the movies. But I also knew that nothing could keep me from going to see this film – literally, nothing.
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Jurassic World is finally here! If you’re at all familiar with the contents of this blog you’ll know that we’ll probably collectively watch it at least 100 times. But, until then, we’re taking a look back at where it all began and sharing our favourite moments from Jurassic Park.
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The original Jurassic Park signalled a new geological era of celluloid magic in 1993, with its eye-popping mix of practical effects and CGI (the latter is not used as much as you might think). But, pre-CGI, our monsters were not always so impressive (by that I mean, they were not all animated by Ray Harryhausen). Let’s take an affectionate look at the sometimes genuinely terrible lizards of the past:
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DiNovember is still in full swing, so here are team Hodderscape’s favourite dinosaurs. When picking out our favourite dinos, we used rigid and objective criteria such as: coolness, badassness, pointiness and whether or not they make a cameo in Jurassic Park.
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Philosoraptor is here to answer some important questions. Well, actually, Philosoraptor is here to answer a lot of questions that most people never even think to ask. Let’s go through some of my favourites.
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There are a number of dinosaurs on Twitter and, while T-Rexes seem to show up most often (one wonders how they type, with those tiny arms – voice recognition software?), they aren’t the only sauropods in town! Here are a few of our favourites.
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